Summary

This report is the result of WealthInsight's extensive research covering the high net worth individual (HNWI) population and wealth management market in Malaysia.

The report focuses on HNWI performance between the end of 2011 and the end of 2015. This enables us to determine how well the country's HNWIs have performed through the crisis.

Scope

Independent market sizing of Malaysia HNWIs across five wealth bands

HNWI volume and wealth trends from 2011 to 2015

HNWI volume and wealth forecasts to 2020

HNWI and UHNWI asset allocations across 13 asset classes

Insights into the drivers of HNWI wealth

Reasons To Buy

The HNWI Asset Allocation in Malaysia 2016 is an unparalleled resource and the leading resource of its kind. Compiled and curated by a team of expert research specialists, the database comprises dossiers on over 125,000 HNWIs from around the world.

With the wealth report as the foundation for our research and analysis, we are able to obtain an unsurpassed level of granularity, insight and authority on the HNWI and wealth management universe in each of the countries and regions we cover.

Report includes comprehensive forecasts to 2020.

Key Highlights

Real estate was the largest asset class for Malaysian HNWIs in 2015, with 26.5% of total HNWI assets, followed by equities with 23.8%, business interests with 20.2%, cash and deposits with 13.1%, fixed income with 11.3% and alternatives with 5.2%.

Business interest recorded the highest growth during the review period, at a rate of 28.4%, followed by fixed income and real estate at respective rates of 9.55% and 9.51%.

Alternative assets held by Malaysian HNWIs decreased from 5.4% to 5.2% between 2011 and 2015. HNWI allocations to commodities decreased from 2.5% to 1.6% of total assets during this period.

WealthInsight expects allocations in commodities to decrease over the forecast period, to reach 1.5% of total HNWI assets by 2020.